they were exfiltrating, stealing, information including government secrets, design schematics, negotiations adversaries. >> and we're talking about defense, american defense. how high up does this go? what kind of information are they stealing? could it compromise us in some way? >> oh, absolutely. it goes very high. and there are plenty of examples of -- specific examples that have been made public of stealing the plans for delta rockets for the space shuttle, for new fighter jets, and then in some cases, even replicating their own versions of these technologies. >> and it seems like this latest round is much more nefarious than what we've seen even in past months when the senate site was hacked or pbs. what does it also say that mcafee was the one who really served as the last line of defense on this? that, you know, things weren't discovered before they were the ones to bring it up. >> well, a number of other firms have actually been tracking these same attacks for a while, but mcafee was just the first one to go public with the news. there's a lot of controversy within the industry abou